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Life and Learning XV – 2005

Preface 

International Law

International Law and the Right to Life  Richard G. Wilkins and Jacob Reynolds

Defending the Council of Europe’s Opposition to Euthanasia  John Keown

Reply to John Keown  Stephen J. Safranek

 

Rhetoric and Argument

Left Unsaid: Deconstructing the Rhetoric of Liberal Feminism’s Failure to Comment on the Worth of Women’s Lives  Ben Voth

Abortion Is More Than Murder  Richard Stith 

Abortion: Why This Issue?  Thomas M. King, S.J.

 

Medical and Nursing Perspectives

Fertility Is Not a Disease  Hannah Klaus, M.D.

Attitudes, Intentions, and Ethical Stance of Advanced Practice Nursing Students toward Abortion Provision: Part One B Quantitative Findings  Richard Fehring

End-of-Life Psychospiritual Pain and Suffering Related to Women Who Have Undergone Induced Abortion(s)  Jean Echlin 

Sexuality Education Programs for Parents Helping Children Develop a Reverence for Life  Mary Lee O’Connell 

 

Ecclesial Perspectives

Benedict XVI: Prolegomena to a Magisterium for Life  John Conley, S.J. 

Catholic Pro-Life Teachings in the New Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church  Robert L. Fastiggi

“One Just Man Found in Gomorrah” :  Father Morrow vs. the Catholic Bishops of Britain in 1993 Anne Barbeau Gardiner  

Clericalization and Impotence of the Pro Life Movement   Damian P. Fedoryka

 

Philosophical and Theological Perspectives

Is It Immoral to be Prudent?   Clark D. Forsythe  

Reply to Clarke Forsythe  William Mathie 

Kevin O’Rourke, O.P. on the Morality of Tube Feeding PVS Patients: A Critique  Mark S. Latkovic 

Ensoulment Problems  Adrian J. Reimers 

Reply to Adrian Reimers  John Conley, S.J.

“Shut Up!” He Explained: How the Effort to Keep Abortion Off the Political Agenda Has Shaped Canadian Politics   William Mathie  

Changing the Culture through Politics and the Media: Ellen McCormack’s 1976 Presidential Campaign   Diane Gilroy 

The Saga of the South Carolina Abortion Clinic Regulation Act  Peter Nyikos  

Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Literature and the Right to Life Issues of Abortion, Infanticide, and Euthanasia   Jeff Koloze  

Science and the Culture of Death  Edward Krause  

Are You Pro-life When Life Hurts?   Andrew P. Porter 

Economic Research into the Abortion Decision: A Literature Review and a New Direction  Andrew Yuengert and Joel Fetzer 

 

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